Heart healthy kids grow up to be heart healthy adults- study
Kids with healthy levels of blood sugar, blood pressure, weight and cholesterol are likely to become heart-healthy adults.
28/02/05 A new study conduced by researchers at Tulane University suggests that kids with healthy levels of blood sugar, blood pressure, weight and cholesterol are likely to become heart-healthy adults.
Metabolic syndrome, also known as syndrome X, is diagnosed if a patient shows a cluster of symptoms: fat around the waistline, high blood pressure, low levels of HDL "good" cholesterol, high fasting blood sugar levels and high triglycerides.
If a person has three or more of these signs, they are at higher risk of developing diabetes mellitus and heart disease, as well as kidney disease. Prior research results from the Bogalusa Heart Study demonstrated that when risk factors for metabolic syndrome and heart disease are present in childhood, related health problems such as high blood pressure, hardened arteries, heart disease and diabetes are more likely to occur in adulthood.
These results show that the reverse is also true- for the one in 10 children who had very favorable levels of the factors that make up metabolic syndrome, those measures were similarly low in adulthood.
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